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18IsTheMan

18IsTheMan

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Per a post on X:

-All starters were transfers; none were enrolled as freshman at Michigan.
-Average age of the starting lineup was 22
-One starter was 25

Too early to make judgment calls, but the average age of the Indiana football team that just won the title was 23. It would be very disturbing if this becomes a trend.
 
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18IsTheMan

18IsTheMan

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Piscis said:
College sports are dead. What we have now is a pro sports league with college naming rights for teams.
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It has to be highly concerning if your 18-19 year olds are disenfranchised.

The ones who can change this are the head coaches. All the head coaches moan about the state of college athletics and how it's gotten away from what it fundamentally should be. But they are all guilty of taking actions that have done the very the thing they say is bad for the sport.
 
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Piscis

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18IsTheMan said:
It has to be highly concerning if your 18-19 year olds are disenfranchised.

The ones who can change this are the head coaches. All the head coaches moan about the state of college athletics and how it's gotten away from what it fundamentally should be. But they are all guilty of taking actions that have done the very the thing they say is bad for the sport.
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The coaches aren't going to jeopardize their multi million dollar contracts to take a stand on principle. Coaches are in a position where recruiting HS players really isn't important. To win, a coach needs to be working the portal full time and forget about recruiting HS players. This is true in pretty much all sports now. Let another coach and program develop the talent and, then, swoop in with a big NIL deal and steal the players you want.
 
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With very few exceptions (the Jadeveon Clowneys and the Zion Williamses of the world), I think things are moving toward P4 teams doing their recruiting from the portal while letting the smaller programs recruit out of HS and develop players. It's like creating a new de facto level of play between HS and college.
 
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18IsTheMan

18IsTheMan

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Uscg1984 said:
With very few exceptions (the Jadeveon Clowneys and the Zion Williamses of the world), I think things are moving toward P4 teams doing their recruiting from the portal while letting the smaller programs recruit out of HS and develop players. It's like creating a new de facto level of play between HS and college.
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The portal was originally, but only briefly, viewed as a way to plug holes on a roster. Now, I'd say it's much more of a 50/50 split between building rosters via the portal and via high school recruiting. And it's trending heavily towards being portal dominated, as evidenced by IU's and Michigan's title runs with teams that were constructed largely via the portal.
 
18IsTheMan

18IsTheMan

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It's probably not a coincidence that Cignetti and May both took over absolutely terrible teams and both won a title in their second season after building the team largely from the portal.

No doubt this is every team's blueprint.
 
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